Carrie Ryan’s novel The Forest of Hands and Teeth, released in 2009, is about a girl named Mary who lives in a post-apocalyptic world. Her brother is a Guardian and spends his days making sure the wall protecting their town is not broken into by the Unconsecrated, her father is an Unconsecrated, and her mother is in desolation and despair. And in the mix of all this, she shuffles a love triangle; the one she loves and the one who loves her. Mary is a deep character who thinks deeply, and her thoughts are easy to relate to. “I realize that sometimes death comes before you expect it. That while we are rarely prepared for our friends, family and loved ones to die, we are never prepared for our own deaths. Never prepared to reconcile our own regrets.” My favorite character is Mary, because she is so easy to understand and how she takes things, strong and willed. Carrie Ryan brings words to life in this novel; it is hard to stop reading once started. If you are one who likes a good romance, some science fiction, action, and suspense, this is definitely a good book.
Jonnah Smith
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